MOSCOW (Reuters) - A leader of Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine, Andrei Purgin, has been detained by fellow-rebels in a power struggle as the breakaway region prepares to hold its own elections.
A Purgin ally and a source with the rebel security forces told Reuters he was arrested on Friday, the day he was also dismissed as the head of the separatist parliament, near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk after returning from Russia.
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